We’re all so busy trying to arrange the outside world so that we can be assured of happiness, and yet happiness is not an experience of things outside of ourselves, happiness is our experience of the inside of oneself.
I wrote a lot this week about getting in touch with your inner experience and this Ted Talk is in keeping with that theme.
Matthieu Ricard is a Molecular Biologist-cum-Buddhist Monk who uses his understanding of the struggles of the 21st century ego to express his own understanding of how happiness arises. It is amusing, warm, and for those with open minds, extremely informative.
Enjoy.
peace. s
A serious childhood brain injury lead Scott to spend his entire life meditating on the concepts of thought, consciousness, reality and identity. It made others as strange to him as he was to them. When he realized people were confused by their own over-thinking, Scott began teaching others to understand reality. He is currently CBC Radio Active’s Wellness Columnist, as well as a writer, speaker and mindfulness instructor based in Edmonton, AB where he still finds it strange to write about himself in the third person.
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This week I’ve been posting some favourites that were written long before the blog was as popular as it is now. It’s been nice to hear from so many of you—I’m happy you’re enjoying them as well as finding them informative and enriching. Rather than end the work-week with a former Friday Dose, I’m going back to before the Dose was even created. This post features a talk on happiness that many readers have found profoundly helpful in their own psychological and spiritual pursuits. I highly recommend checking it out. Enjoy: